SAN FRANCISCO -- Federal prosecutors said Tuesday that Lodi Islamic leader Shabbir Ahmed was part of a long-term effort to build a Lodi Muslim school to train future jihadists who could commit acts of terrorism in the United States. FBI Special Agent Gary Schaaf testified that Ahmed was involved in a "long-term plan" to set up an Islamic school in Lodi whose students would be "ready to commit acts of violence." Schaaf said that school -- the proposed Farooqia Center in southwest Lodi -- would be patterned after the Islamic university in Pakistan called Jamia Farooqia, which was listed by...
